Chandannagar

Chandannagar, also called Farasdanga and historically Chandernagore, is a city in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Chandannagore subdivision and forms part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The city stands on the western bank of the Hooghly River and was one of the five French settlements in India, a heritage still visible in its Indo-French architecture, including colonial bungalows, many of which are now dilapidated. The 2011 census of India counted 166,867 people in the city.